A Good Birthday for Me
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:08 pm
I just got a robo-birthday card from my boss many levels up, and he included everyone in the group with a September birthday.
When it comes to birthdays, I think September is the best month, for a boy. If you were born in September, then you will be among the oldest players on your baseball and soccer teams (where the cut-off is July 31st), AND, if your parents are smart, they will hold you out of school so that you will be six when you enter first grade, thus making you one of the oldest kids in your grade in school.
Being the oldest at a young age, in my opinion, is a very bid advantage for a kid. In TeeBall and First Grade, you will be the biggest, strongest, most mature, and will draw the favor and attention of the coaches and teachers. This will help you to advance a little more quickly than your unfortunate peers who may have been born in, say June or July, and by the time you are older this advantage will not become less but will rather be fortified.
Indeed, it has been noted that 70% of the Canadian players in the NHL had "good" birthdays.
You can also see it in Little League World Series telecasts, where half the kids on these winning teams are 13 years old by the time the teams get to the last rounds, meaning that they are almost all August birthdays.
Unfortunately for me, my parents saw things the opposite way, and put me in first grade when I was 5 (didn't go to K'garten). thus I was one of the youngest kids in the class, as well as being the youngest in my family.
When it comes to birthdays, I think September is the best month, for a boy. If you were born in September, then you will be among the oldest players on your baseball and soccer teams (where the cut-off is July 31st), AND, if your parents are smart, they will hold you out of school so that you will be six when you enter first grade, thus making you one of the oldest kids in your grade in school.
Being the oldest at a young age, in my opinion, is a very bid advantage for a kid. In TeeBall and First Grade, you will be the biggest, strongest, most mature, and will draw the favor and attention of the coaches and teachers. This will help you to advance a little more quickly than your unfortunate peers who may have been born in, say June or July, and by the time you are older this advantage will not become less but will rather be fortified.
Indeed, it has been noted that 70% of the Canadian players in the NHL had "good" birthdays.
You can also see it in Little League World Series telecasts, where half the kids on these winning teams are 13 years old by the time the teams get to the last rounds, meaning that they are almost all August birthdays.
Unfortunately for me, my parents saw things the opposite way, and put me in first grade when I was 5 (didn't go to K'garten). thus I was one of the youngest kids in the class, as well as being the youngest in my family.
